divination

Noun

Meaning

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him. A. E. Waite

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know. Joanne Harris

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. Arthur Machen

There is a deep, ancient connection between gambling and divination. Aaron C. Brown

An unconstrained form of divination, free from any particular medium, and actually a generalization of all types of divination. Source: Internet

Athens 1987.p 134 "Oracles" in other cultures main The term "oracle" is also applied in modern English to parallel institutions of divination in other cultures. Source: Internet

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